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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 12:18 PM Mar 2015

Fewer professors, more managers work on Cal State campuses

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Fewer-professors-more-managers-work-on-Cal-State-6156410.php

As enrollment at California State University soared over the last decade, the number of professors did not soar with them. But managers and supervisors increased aplenty, according to numbers compiled by faculty who are angry about the shift.

Enrollment rose by 24 percent between 2004 and 2014, while tenured and tenure-track faculty dropped by 3 percent, and managers and supervisors rose by 19 percent, the California Faculty Association reported Tuesday.

The faculty association represents about 25,000 faculty members across CSU’s 23 campuses, and much of its report—“Race to the Bottom — Salary, Staffing Priorities and the CSU’s 1%” — looks at salary information the group hopes will help in labor negotiations with the university in May.

But for students and taxpayers, the numbers paint a revealing portrait of who is teaching the more than 400,000 students at the vast university and its campuses, how the ratio of professors to administrators has changed, and what CSU and its campuses looked like before and after the recession.


You know what else has been soaring? Tuition. Now we know why.

Hmmm... "fewer professors, more managers". Where have we heard that before? Oh, right. From the accrediting agency during the CCSF debacle, the same agency that accredits the CSUs. Their main gripe was that CCSF was too professor-centric!
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Fewer professors, more managers work on Cal State campuses (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2015 OP
While this may be a factor in rising tutitions... Salviati Mar 2015 #1
here's a link to the full report (which is not long).... mike_c Mar 2015 #2
This is a national trend ladym55 Mar 2015 #3

Salviati

(6,009 posts)
1. While this may be a factor in rising tutitions...
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 12:29 PM
Mar 2015

and it is certainly a problem going forward, it's important not to lose sight of the the real cause in the rise of tuition at public universities over the last several decades: the dramatic drop in state funding. The total cost of a college education has, the last time I checked, actually risen slower than the rate of inflation, but the price borne by students has risen dramatically faster because "we" have made the choice to stop subsidizing that education at the same levels as we historically have.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
3. This is a national trend
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:14 AM
Mar 2015

Fewer faculty ... more administrators. Replace full-time faculty with obscenely underpaid adjuncts. Move more and more courses on-line with little effort to provide quality on-line course design.

And it's not just deanlets proliferating. It's vice presidents and associate vice presidents and assistant vice presidents. And for all of those individuals, it is all about gaining personal power and improving their own salaries.

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